Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

ESTRAGON

[0474] It's the normal thing.

VLADIMIR

[0475] Is it not?

ESTRAGON

[0476] I think it is.

VLADIMIR

[0477] I think so to .

[0478] (Silence) slight x L after laugh

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Segment 2

ESTRAGON

[0479] (Anxious) [0480] And we?

VLADIMIR

[0481] I beg your pardon?

ESTRAGON

[0482] I said, And we?

VLADIMIR

[0483] I don't understand.

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Segment 3

ESTRAGON

[0484] Where do we come in?

VLADIMIR

[0485] Come in?

ESTRAGON

[0486] Take your time.

VLADIMIR

[0487] Come in? [0488] On our hands and knees.

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Segment 4

ESTRAGON

[0489] As bad as that!

VLADIMIR

[0490] Your Worship wishes to assert his prerogatives?

ESTRAGON

[0491] We've no rights any more?

[0492] (Laugh of VLADIMIR, repressed as before, [0493] less
the smile)

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Segment 5

VLADIMIR

[0494] You'd make me laugh, if it wasn't prohibited.

ESTRAGON

[0495] We've lost our rights?

VLADIMIR

[0497] We waived them.

[0498] (Silence. [0499] They remain motionless, arms
dangling, heads bowed, sagging at the
knees)

Turn L

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[0500] (Feebly) [0501] We're not tied? [0502] (pause) [0503] We're not -

VLADIMIR

[0504] (Raising his hand) [0505] Listen!

[0506] (They listen, grotesquely rigid)

ESTRAGON

[0507] I hear nothing.

VLADIMIR

[0508] Hssst!

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